WOR Converter

Extract text from WOR files


Drop or upload your .WOR file
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How to extract text from your WOR file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WOR file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert WOR to another file type

To convert your WOR file to another format, you need MapInfo Pro or other GIS software.

Convert a file to WOR

To convert other file formats to the "Map Project File" file type, you need software like MapInfo Pro or a similar tool.


About WOR files

A .WOR file is a MapInfo Workspace, a plain-text configuration file used by MapInfo Pro to save the state of a GIS session. Think of it as a "recipe" rather than the meal itself; it tells the software which data layers (typically TAB, DAT, or MAP files) to open, how to style them, and where to position the map windows. A major friction point for users is that .WOR files do not contain the actual map data. If you email a .WOR file to a colleague without the accompanying data folders, they will see nothing but error messages complaining about missing tables. Additionally, these files often rely on hard-coded file paths, meaning even a slight change in folder structure can break the workspace entirely. Because MapInfo is proprietary commercial software, opening these files without a license is difficult. For sharing map visualizations with non-GIS users, the best workflow is converting the rendered view to PDF or JPG. For migrating projects to open-source alternatives like QGIS, users often check the .WOR in a text editor to reconstruct the layer list manually, as direct conversion preserves only basic vectors, not complex styling.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WOR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted TAB, SXF and 108 files.


FAQ

If you want to convert WOR file to SHP, KML, KMZ, GPX, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF, ECW, SID, IMG or DEM, you can use MapInfo Pro or similar software from the "GIS Project Workspace" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or KML files to WOR, try MapInfo Pro or another comparable tool in the "GIS Project Workspace" category.



The WOR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WOR converter.